Alamosa Public Library

Profiles women who have been active in air and space, including Christa McAuliffe, Amelia Earhart, and Sally Ride.

Explores the early methods of flight, from the first hot air balloon adventure to the Wright Brothers.

The life and career of the famous aviator, from her girlhood in Kansas, through her successes breaking aviation records and her increasing fame, to her mysterious disappearance.

A biography of the first licensed female African American pilot.

"This narrative follows David Harris's turbulent path to become the first African-American commercial airline pilot in the U.S., presented against the backdrop of racial tensions, protests, and the landmark civil rights legislation of the 1960s"--

This book profiles the lives of George Cayley, the Wright brothers, Louis Bleriot, Alcock and Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and other air pioneers.

"The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to earn her pilot's license"--

Publisher Annotation: Sometimes history is made by a dyslexic, mischievous boy who hates school, is a descendant of one of Frederick Douglass? half-sisters, and whose Pops was a Buffalo Soldier. In I Wanted to be a Pilot, one of the less than 100 living Documented Original Tuskegee Airman, Franklin J. Macon, tells the lively stories of how he overcame life?s obstacles to become a Tuskegee Airman. Soar through history with Franklin as he conquers dyslexia,...